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adjective

Exact adj.

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. "I took a great pains to make out the exact truth."

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I see thou art exact of taste."

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. "An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason."

verb

Exact v. t. (past & past part. exacted; pres. part. exacting) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. "He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you." "Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last" "My designs Exact me in another place."

Exact v. i. To practice exaction. (R.) "The anemy shall not exact upon him."

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— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby

... wall, her hands, outstretched behind her, resting on it. The last soft bloom of day was upon her; indefinably, with her hands so, the wall behind her and her lifted head, she looked a soldier facing a firing party. "Tell me quickly," she said, "the exact truth." ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... again before the fire in the hall, as we had had our mild wonders of the previous night. It appeared that the narrative he had promised to read us really required for a proper intelligence a few words of prologue. Let me say here distinctly, to have done with it, that this narrative, from an exact transcript of my own made much later, is what I shall presently give. Poor Douglas, before his death—when it was in sight—committed to me the manuscript that reached him on the third of these days and that, on the same spot, with immense effect, he began to read to our ...

— The Turn of the Screw • Henry James

... It seems, however, not to have satisfied the painter, because three years later, before his removal to his own house in the St. Anthoniebreestraat, he gives his address, in another letter to Huygens, as being on the Amstel in a house called De suikerbakkery (the sugar refinery) the exact situation of which ...

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